JavaScript for time delay onClick goto URL for Form submission

[Rahina]

I am working in Dreamweaver 8, and I have created a simple form: http://www.realmofmyst ery.com/app.html

This is a free website I am doing for some friends, so nothing fancy. And, I learned web design before all the CGI and PHP stuff got big, so I prefer to do things simply.

The form worked fine, emails the results like perfect, but it refused to redirect the page to the confirmation. I thought I could add an onClick to the submit button, but this cancels out the form processing.

So, I called my hosting people, they told me to redirect the form action from a mailto, to the gdform.asp file on the server. I did this, and I keep getting errors now. It refuses to work. They are no help, they say I made a mistake scripting, only I didn't script anything!!! I am just using their script. So, I think this could be solved with a simple piece of JavaScript, problem is, I don't know enough about JavaScript to write my own script, but I am assuming the onClick would work if there was also a time delay written into the script that gave the form enough time to submit before redirecting to the confirmation page.

Does anyone have a script to delay the onClick event so I can bypass this?

If you need any extra info, let me know. Also, here is the code contained in my gdform.asp:

<%

Dim landing_page, host_url
Dim fso, outfile, filename, dirname, myFolder
Dim req_method, key, value
Dim bErr, errStr, bEmpty
On Error resume next
bErr = false
bEmpty = true
errStr = ""
Set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
host_url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST")
req_method = Request.ServerVariables("REQUEST_METHOD")
dtNow = Now()
filename = Server.MapPath("\ssfm")
dirname = filename
filename = filename & "\gdform_" & DatePart("M", dtNow) & DatePart("D", dtNow) & DatePart("YYYY", dtNow) & DatePart("N", dtNow) & DatePart("S", dtNow)

Function FormatVariableLine(byval var_name, byVal var_value)
	Dim tmpStr
	tmpStr = tmpStr & "<GDFORM_VARIABLE NAME=" & var_name & " START>" & vbCRLF
	tmpStr = tmpStr & var_value & vbCRLF
	tmpStr = tmpStr & "<GDFORM_VARIABLE NAME=" & var_name & " END>"
	FormatVariableLine = tmpStr
end function

Sub OutputLine(byVal line)
   outfile.WriteLine(line)
end sub

if err.number = 0 then
	Set outfile = fso.CreateTextFile(filename, true, false)
	if err.number <> 0 then
			bErr = true
			errStr = "Error creating file! Directory may not be writable or may not exist.<br>Unable to process request."
	else
		if(req_method = "GET") then
			for each Item in request.QueryString
				if item <> "" then
					bEmpty = false
					key = item
					value = Request.QueryString(item)
					if(lcase(key) = "redirect") then
						landing_page = value
					else
						line = FormatVariableLine(key, value)
						Call OutputLine(line)
					end if
				end if	
			next
		elseif (req_method = "POST") then
			for each Item in request.form
				if item <> "" then
					bEmpty = false
					key = item
					value = Request.form(item)
					if(lcase(key) = "redirect") then
						landing_page = value
					else
						line = FormatVariableLine(key, value)
						Call OutputLine(line)
					end if
				end if	
			next
		end if
		outfile.close
	end if	
	if(bEmpty = true) AND errStr = "" then
		bErr = true
		errStr = errStr & "<br>No variables sent to form! Unable to process request."
	end if
	if(bErr = false) then	
		if (landing_page <> "") then
			response.Redirect "http://" & host_url & "/" & landing_page
		else
			response.Redirect "http://" & host_url	
		end if
	else
		Response.Write errStr
	end if	
	set fso = nothing
else
  Response.Write " An Error Occurred creating mail message. Unable to process form request at this time."
end if
%>

When I first changed the form to direct here, I got the first error it mentions, then when I removed the JavaScript to validate the form on submission, I started getting the second error.

Thanks in advance!

[acoder]

This seems like an ASP problem rather than a JavaScript one. I'll move this to the ASP forum.

Have you made sure the form field names match those required by the script?

[pronerd]

I am assuming the onClick would work if there was also a time delay written into the script that gave the form enough time to submit before redirecting to the confirmation page.

That would not be a good solution since the user would see the confirmation page, even if an error occurred and their submition did not go though. You really want your server side logic to process the request, then if the request was successfully processed forward them to the confirmation page. Otherwise you want to return an error so they know the request did not go though.

Also, as soon as you submit a request the current page stops executing, so it can not then submitted a second request later. So the only way for what you describe to work would be for the first request to be submitted via AJAX, and then submit the second request to the confirmation page.